Julien Louis Geoffroy

Julien Louis Geoffroy ( born August 17, 1743 Rennes, † February 27, 1814 in Paris) was a French writer and critic who was surnamed le Terrible.

Geoffroy wrote the unexecuted tragedy La mort de Caton, three times won the exposed from the University Prize in Oratory, 1776 was hired as a professor of rhetoric at the College Mazarin and directed until 1792, the editors of L'Année littéraire and the Journal de Monsieur.

At the outbreak of the Revolution, he was with the Abbé Royou out the anti-revolutionary Ami du rol, which was soon suppressed, while Geoffroy had to flee themselves.

After the 18th Brumaire returned to Paris, he took over here in 1800 the editor of the arts section in the Journal de l'Empire (later the Journal of the Débats ). He used his talent and his position as a critic on the nichtswürdigste way so that the most respectable writers, poets and actors sought to secure through a regular tribute to his attacks.

It did not lack intelligence and wit, and if his style is often coarse and bombastic, so his thoughts are mostly healthy and accurate. His Commentaire sur le théâtre de Racine (par. 1808, 7 ​​vols ) is without value. A collection of his written for the Journal of Débats critical essays appeared under the title Cours de littérature dramatique (par. 1819-20, 6 vols ), an excerpt from Manuel dramatique (1822 ).